Rubber glove with reinforced turnback cuff



a mmm m w H 7 NSOI 0 m v A c .S m B N R w e L 5 m m w mw Mmvm. H m 5H6 .W s E m v 0 L G R E B B U On Feb. 4, 1958 United States Patent-"011cc RUBBER GLOVE WITH REINFORCED TURNBACK CUFF Application August 15, 1956, Serial No. 604,158

4 Claims. (Cl. 2-162) The invention relates to rubber gloves and more particularly to certain improvements upon rubber gloves having cuffs which may be turned back in the manner shown in our prior Patent No. 2,117,417 dated May 17, 1938.

Gloves of this general type are formed of rubber or synthetic rubber having a flared cufi portion adapted to be turned back to form a shield or trough, the wrist portion of the glove being annularly grooved at the point where the cuff is turned back.

.Such gloves were originally designed for use by electric linemen and electricians to provide a static shield, and they are also useful in various industries in the handling of liquids, and also by housewives.

While gloves of this type have been generally satisfactory, it has been found by experience that where the wearer of such gloves is engaged in work requiring sudden or vigorous forward or backward movements of the hands, it would cause the turned back cufi to be moved out of adjusted position.

For instance, with a sudden forward movement of the hand, the coil portion is caused to turn over the entire hand, while with a sudden backward movement of the hand the turned up cuff portion is frequently turned down to normal position of the glove.

It was found that this was caused by the fact that there was no reinforcement or stop means on either side of the annular groove portion of the glove to prevent the cuif from turning up or down beyond this point.

It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a turned back cuff with reinforcing stop means on either side of the annular groove to prevent the cuii from being turned back or down in either direction beyond said annular grooved portion.

Another object is to provide such a glove having an annular shoulder on either side of the annular grooved portion to prevent the glove from turning back or down in either direction beyond the same.

A further object is to provide such a glove having an annular row of longitudinal corrugations on either side of the annularly grooved portion.

The above objects together with others which will be apparent from the drawing and following description, or which may be later referred to, may be attained by constructing the improved glove in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawing and hereinafter described in detail, in which;

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a glove embodying the invention, with the cult turned down;

Fig. 2 a similar view showing the cufi turned up;

Fig. 3 a front elevation of the improved glove with the cuff turned up, the wrist portion of the glove being shown in section;

Fig. 4 a transverse sectional View through the turned up cuif portion of the glove, taken as on the line 44, Fig. 2; and,

Fig. 5 an enlarged, fragmentary sectional view through the turned up cuff portion of the glove.

Referring now more particularly to the embodiment 2,821,718 P nt Fe .,19

of the invention illustrated in the drawing, inwhich similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout, the improved glove includes the hand portion 10 of conventional construction, the wrist portion 11, annularly grooved as at 12 so that the cuff or gauntlet indicated generally at 13 may be turned back in the manner shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5.

This cuff or gauntlet portion of the glove is sharply convexed and flares abruptly outward from the grooved portion 12, as indicated at 14, and terminates in the straight portion 15. The edge of the glove may be finished by a conventional rolled head 16, or in any other usual and well known manner.

When the glove is worn upon the hand as shown in Fig. 3, the cuff portion 13 is turned up at the annular grooved portion 12 so as to form an open trough around the wrist portion of the glove, as shown.

When worn by electrical linemen or electricians, this trough forms a static shield to prevent static from passing up the arm of the wearer, and when worn by workers in industry or housewives working with water or other liquids, the trough will prevent the liquids from running down the arms of the wearer. It is essential that the cuff remain turned up in this position while in use in order to provide this protection for the wearer.

For the purpose of preventing the turned up cuif from being displaced by sudden forward or backward movements of the hand, stop means are provided upon either side of the annularly grooved portion 12 of the glove so as to prevent the cuff portion from being displacedin either direction. i

For this purpose, stop means is provided upon the wrist portion of the glove just above the annular grooved portion 12, and on the cuff portion of the annular grooved portion.

gloove below said The stop means on the wrist portion of the glove above 'the annular groove is provided to prevent the turned up cuff from being further turned up over the hand portion of the glove when the hand is moved suddenly forward.

The stop means on the gauntlet or cult is adapted to prevent the cuff from being turned down upon sudden backward movement of the hand. The stop means'may be in the form of an annular band of longitudinal corrugations 17 located around the wrist portion 11 above the 'annular grooved portion 12, and an annular" band of 7 corrugations 1% located around the cuff 13 below the annular grooved portion 12.

With the glove constructed in the manner above described, when the cuff 13 is turned up, as shown in Figs. 2 to 5, any sudden or sharp forward or outward movement of the hand will be prevented from causing the turned up cuff to turn up further over the hand portion of the glove, as the lower ends of the corrugations 17, just above the annular grooved portion 12, will be contacted by this grooved portion 12 preventing the cuff from being further turned up.

Likewise, if the hand is given a sudden backward or inward movement, the lower ends of the corrugations 18 on the turned up cuff l3 contacting the flared portion 14 will prevent the cuff from being turned down.

It will be seen from the above that the corrugations 17 and 18 not only form shoulders to prevent displacement of the turned up cuff in either direction, but they reinforce and stitfen the glove and tend to hold the turned up cufi properly spaced around the wrist portion of the glove to form a trough.

In the foregoing description, certain terms have been used for brevity, clearness and understanding, but no unnecessary limitations are to be implied therefrom beyond the requirements of the prior art, because such words are used for descriptive purposes herein and are intended to be broadly construed.

lMoreoven, the, embodiments of the improvedconstruction illustrated and described herein are by way of example, and the scope of *the present invention is not limited to the. err-act details of Construction.

Having now described the invention or discovery, the construction, theoperation, and use of preferred embodimentsthereof, and the advantageous new and useful resultslobtained thereby, the new and useful construction, and reasonable mechanical'equivalents thereof obvious to those skilled in the art, are set forth in the appended a m 'We c aim: l. A gloye of rubber or the like provided with a tubular sleeye ,having anannular grooved portion spaced from end, th e tubular sleeve being outwardly flared immediately adjacent to said annular grooved portion and ,terminatingin a straight portion, whereby said flared portion and straight terminal portion of the sleeve may be turned up at said annular grooved portion to form, a trough around the remainder of the tubular sleeve, and an, annular shoulder on said tubular sleeve immediately above saidannular grooved portion for preventing the pndportion of the sleeve from being turned up above said annular groove said annular shoulder comprising a band of longitudinal corrugations molded in said tubular sleeve and terminating immediately above said annular grooved portiornlthe wall thickness of said corrugations being equal to the wall thickness of the tubular sleeve. 7

2, A glove of rubber or the like provided with a tubular sleeve having an annular grooved portion spaced from its end, the tubular sleeve being outwardly flared immediately adjacent to said annular grooved portion and terminating in a straight portion, whereby said flared portion and straight terminal portion of the sleeve may be turned up at said annular grooved, portion to form a equaltothe wall thickness of the tubular sleeve, said corrugations extending alternately outwardly and inwardly from thefnor'mal plane of said tubular sleeve.

glove of rubber or the like provided with a ftubular' sleevehaving an annular grooved portion spaced from its end, the tubular sleeve being outwardly flared immediately adjacent to said annular grooved portion and terminating in a straight portion, whereby said flared portion and straight termihal portion of the sleeve may be turned up at said annular grooved portion to form a trough around the remainder of the tubular sleeve, and an annular shoulder on said I tubular sleeve immediately above said annular grooved portion for preventing the end portion ofthesle'eve from being turned up above said annular groove, said annular shoulder comprising a band of longitudinal corrugations molded in said tubular sleeve and terminating immediately above's'aid' annular grooved portion, and an annular shoulder on said straight terminal portion immediately below said flaredgportion and comprising a band of longitudinal corrugations molded in said straight terminal portion and terminating at said flared portion, the wall thickness of all of said corrugations being equal to the wall thickness of the tubular sleeve. I

4.A' glove of rubber or the like providedwith a tubular sleeve having an annular grooved'po'rtion spaced from"'i ts"end',- the tubular sleeve being outwardly flared immediately adjacent to said annular grooved portion and terminating in'a straight"portion,whereby said'fia'r'ed portion andstraightterminal'portion of the sleeve may be turned-up at said annular'grooved portion to form a trough around the remainder of the'tubular'sleeve'and an"annu1ar shoulder "on said tubular'sleeve immediately above said annular grooved portion for preventing the end portion of the' sleeve from being turned up above said annular groove, said annular shoulder comprising a band of longitudinal corrugations molded in said tubular sleeve and terminating immediately above said annular grooved portion and ail-annular shoulder onsaid' straight terminal portion immediately-below said flared portion and comprising aband' of longitudinal corrugations molded said straight terminal portion and terminating in said flared p drtion, the wall thickness of'all of said corrugations being 'e'qualto thewall thickness of the tubular sleeve, all of said'corrtigations extending'alte'rnately' outwardly 'aiidinwardly from the normal plane of said tubular sleeve.

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